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Author Zia, Ather, author

Title Resisting disappearance : military occupation and women's activism in Kashmir / Ather Zia
Edition First edition
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Decolonizing Feminisms
Decolonizing feminisms.
Contents The politics of mourning -- The politics of democracy -- The killable Kashmiri body -- The politics of visibility -- Enforced disappearance of the other kind -- Militarizing humanitarianism -- Retelling and remembering -- Obliteration and transmutation
Summary In Kashmir's frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her mother in collective mourning. The activist women who form the Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons (APDP) keep public attention focused on the 8,000 to 10,000 Kashmiri men disappeared by the Indian government forces since 1989. Surrounded by Indian troops, international photojournalists, and curious onlookers, the APDP activists cry, lament, and sing while holding photos and files documenting the lives of their disappeared loved ones. In this radical departure from traditionally private rituals of mourning, they create a spectacle of mourning that combats the government's threatening silence about the fates of their sons, husbands, and fathers.0Drawn from Ather Zia's ten years of engagement with the APDP as an anthropologist and fellow Kashmiri activist, 'Resisting Disappearance' follows mothers and "half-widows" as they step boldly into courts, military camps, and morgues in search of their disappeared kin. Through an amalgam of ethnography, poetry, and photography, Zia illuminates how dynamics of gender and trauma in Kashmir have been transformed in the face of South Asia's longest-running conflict, providing profound insight into how Kashmiri women and men nurture a politics of resistance while facing increasing military violence under India
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Muslim women -- Political activity -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
Women political activists -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
Disappeared persons -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
Human rights -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
Civil-military relations -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
Military government -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Autonomy and independence movements
Civil-military relations
Disappeared persons
Human rights
Military government
Muslim women -- Political activity
Women political activists
SUBJECT Jammu and Kashmir (India) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Subject India -- Jammu and Kashmir
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019016497
ISBN 9780295745008
0295745002
0295744987
9780295744988